Herbert Schelcher

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Walter Herbert Schelcher (born January 20, 1883 in Dresden ; † May 7, 1946 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German lawyer and, during the Nazi era, president of the Saxon Higher Administrative Court .

Life

Herbert Schelcher was the son of the Saxon ministerial official and administrative lawyer Walter Schelcher (1851-1939). After graduating from high school in 1901 at the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden, he studied law at the Universities of Freiburg i.Br. , Heidelberg and Leipzig . After completing his doctorate in 1905 and doing legal training in various cities in Saxony, he became an assessor in the official administration of Annaberg in 1909 . Two years later he moved to the Plauen administration and joined the Saxon Ministry of the Interior in 1917. In 1929 he was appointed Ministerialrat there. From January to November 1932 Schelcher was the Saxon price commissioner . On December 1, 1932, he took over the management of the 1st Department of the Ministry of the Interior.

During the first phase of the NSDAP's takeover of power in Saxony by Reich Commissioner and SA-Obergruppenführer Manfred von Killinger , Schelcher was head of the Saxon State Chancellery from March to May 1933. On May 6, he was again head of the Interior Ministry. On November 1, 1933, he was appointed President of the Saxon Higher Administrative Court . In 1937 he joined the NSDAP. Due to the increasing reduction in the OVG's activities, he was seconded to the Reich Administrative Court (RVG) in Berlin in 1941 , where he was responsible for taxes and local taxes as President of the Senate until the end of the war in 1945 . Five years earlier, Schelcher had published the first draft of a law for the establishment of a Reich Administrative Court in the Reichsverwaltungsblatt , which had been drawn up by the Administration of the Dresden Gau in the Association of National Socialist German Jurists . In December 1942 he was appointed to deputize for the president for the duration of the absence of RVG Vice President Herbert Bach .

In addition to his work as an administrative judge, Schelcher also had lectureships at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1936 he became a lecturer in public law and in 1938 part-time head of the legal seminar. The following year he was also appointed to the Dresden Administrative Academy. In 1942 he was appointed professor for state, administrative and public law at the TH Dresden. In 1938, Schelcher took over the editing of Fischer's magazine for administrative law from his father, which he had held since 1900, until he was hired in 1941 .

After the end of the Second World War, Schelcher worked for a short time until autumn 1945 as a consultant for the state administration of Saxony . In February 1946 he was arrested and taken to special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg , where he died a few months later.

literature

  • Christoph Jestaedt: The Saxon Higher Administrative Court from 1901 to 1941 and its five presidents . In: Claus Meissner (ed.): The Saxon Higher Administrative Court - Administrative jurisdiction in Saxony 1901–1993 . (= Saxon Justice History Volume 1). Saxon State Ministry of Justice, Dresden 1994, pp. 14–21 ( online) (PDF; 7.1 MB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Wagner : "Seizure of power" in Saxony. NSDAP and state administration 1930–1935. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-412-14404-3 , p. 87 (fn. 272).
  2. ↑ Matthias Lienert: Between resistance and repression. Students at the TU Dresden 1946–1989 . Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-412-20598-0 , p. 18.
  3. ^ A b Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany. Volume 3: Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in the Republic and Dictatorship 1914–1945 . CH Beck, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-406-37002-0 , p. 136.
  4. ^ A b Julian Lubini: The administrative courts in the countries of the Soviet Zone / GDR 1945–1952 (= contributions to the legal history of the 20th century, Volume 82). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-16-153526-0 , p. 19 (fn. 68).
  5. ^ Wolfgang Kohl: The Reich Administrative Court . A contribution to the development of administrative jurisdiction in Germany . Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-16-145740-1 , p. 415. See also Herbert Schelcher: Administrative Courts, Legal Remedies and Reich Administrative Court . In: Reichsverwaltungsblatt vol. 57 (1936), pp. 1–5.
  6. ^ Wolfgang Kohl: The Reich Administrative Court . A contribution to the development of administrative jurisdiction in Germany . Verlag Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 978-3-16-145740-1 , p. 475 (fn. 134).
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. jur. Herbert Walter Schelcher in the Catalogus professorum dresdensis of the TU Dresden, accessed on April 23, 2020.
  8. ↑ Jestaedt erroneously states that Schelcher has succeeded Arnold Streit as President of the OVG , but that his predecessor was Otto Gäbler .
personal data
SURNAME Schelcher, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schelcher, Walter Herbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg